Joan’s parents want her to marry young Travis, but Joan has no interest in him. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Private Detective (1939) Noel M. Smith, Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson
Private detective “Jinx” Wilsnow is working on the case of a divorcée who is accused of murdering her ex-husband. Read More »
Alcatraz Island (1937) William C. McGann
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence. Read More »
Ever in My Heart (1933) Archie Mayo, Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy
In 1909 Mary Archer, daughter of small-town bluebloods, awaits the return from Germany of sometime beau Jeff. Read More »
Vanity Street (1932) Nick Grinde, Charles Bickford, Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot
A NYC police-detective rescues a down-and-out showgirl from a bad situation, gets her a job in the ‘Follies”, and falls in love with her. Read More »
Roberta (1935) William A. Seiter, Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. Read More »
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) Anatole Litvak, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor
Dr. Clitterhouse is fascinated with the working of the criminal mind. Read More »
In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) Charles Chauvel, Arthur Greenaway, Mayne Lynton, Errol Flynn
The film explores the story of the Bounty and is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Read More »
Smartest Girl in Town (1936) Joseph Santley, Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Helen Broderick
Modeling furs has given our heroine Cookie a taste for them, so she’s determined to marry a rich man. Read More »
Each Dawn I Die (1939) William Keighley, James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
Although innocent, reporter Frank Ross is found guilty of murder and is sent to jail. Read More »